Alleycat race ideas
I havn't put on an alleycat (or other non-USCF type race) since summer. I guess I'm frustrated that, besides myself, there's only one other person in town willing to put on on, and he's already pretty much given up on doing more than one a year. Now I like to put on races, don't get me wrong. I enjoy it very much. Giving a challenge to other riders is a blast. But I also want to race them. The last one put on was a create your own checkpoint (CYOC) race. That worked out well as I could race AND organize the event. I could easily organize another. But I have ideas for other events, and it would be nice if other people came up with some too.
Now I'm gonna let the cat out of the bag here, with telling you guys some of the details of alleycats I've been planning in my head (and sometimes on paper too).
Clue
Like the board game. I have most of it figured out. Riders get a clue sheet/matrix-grid and a first destination at the start. Riders race to that first destination where a list of checkpoints are. Each checkpoint location has some sort of clue that may look like this:
Mr. Smith was in the bedroom.Or like this:
The murder was not in the kitchen.Eventually there should be enough clues to make a guess. First person to figure it out wins.
Now, to prevent someone from just making random guesses, each rider must submit guesses in writing on the clue sheet, and will be limited to 2 guesses. I am hoping that riders can figure it out without traveling to all the checkpoints, but if they do travel to them all, it will be easy.
Trivial Pursuit
This one should be super easy to set up. Riders get a manifest of checkpoints with numbered groups of lines on the back (or side or wherever). At each checkpoint is a copy of a Trivial Pursuit card showing the questions, and a number. Say there's five checkpoints, each card would be numbered 1 through 5. Riders then have to answer the questions on thier manifest, in the correct order, within the correct lined area. (each card has 5 questions, so if there's five checkpoints, there's a total of 25 possible answers) Each correct answer is worth a point and bonus points will be awarded for being 1st, 2nd or 3rd back as well as visiting all checkpoints. The rider with the most points wins.
Don't know what to call this one
Most of the races I put on are non-linier, meaning you can go to checkpoint B before going to A, then go to D, then F, E then finally C. It's up to the rider. This one would be set up so that you travel to checkpoint A, where it tells you where checkpoint B is at, on till the end of the race. This one could even be made to incorperate tasks at some (or all) of the checks.
Of course with all the races, I'll try to make riders ride around the whole town, climb hills, maybe even go off-road, up steps, climb fences and other challenges. And this is just a sampling of what I have stewing in my brain. What about you, do you have any ideas for a race, or have you put on an interesting race? Tell me about it in a comment.
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Thursday 10/04/2007 | 01:16 pm
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